Rare chance to see Lonely Planet, more Assassins fundraisers

The road to national competition is paved with some excellent theater opportunities. Civic and the cast of Assassins is raising money to get to the national festival -- like the World Series of Community Theater. It's not cheap to take a dozen people to Charlotte, NC. The cast and crew of Assassins is multi-talented, and they're combining their efforts to put on some impressive fund raisers.

As mentioned before, Assassins will play on the Civic Main Stage on April 28.

On May 9 and 13, Lonely Planet returns to the Studio Theater, at least in Readers Theater form. Troy Nickerson and Thomas Heppler took this poignant, beautiful show to nationals in '99 and practically swept all the awards -- for good reason. They also SHARED the "best actor" prize -- they're the only two performers in this piece. Reader's Theater means they use their scripts and no set, but I hope they manage to use the one set of props that adds a heart-wrenching visualization of current events. (What, you think I'm gonna spill and spoil it for you?)

On June 3, Abbey Crawford will perform her cabaret "Food, Glorious Food" at the Studio Theater TWICE -- early show at 7:30, late show at 9:30. Abbey was invited into the Cabaret Conference At Yale and performs around the area when possible (she's now half of the morning team at KXLY FM)

Tickets to any of these performances are available at Civic, 328-2507. Again, all proceeds go to taking Assassins to competition. By the way, Civic would also appreciate any donations to help raise competition funds, including donations of Airline Miles. IF you can help, contact Yvonne at 325-1413.